In my reporting, I've found that real change escapes many change-makers because powerful illusions guide their projects.
Anand Giridharadas
ChangePowerfulRealIllusionsGuide
Bullfighting is every bit as ghoulish and savage as its critics warn, but it is equally as powerful and moving as its supporters insist. Perhaps the most vexing aspect about it is that neither group is wrong: they are both telling the truth.
Brin-Jonathan Butler
TruthMovingPowerfulWrongGroup
And, not only in Budapest. I worked very closely with a very powerful government organization, which shall remain unidentified, to develop the mass marketed version of the Cube.
Erno Rubik
GovernmentOrganizationPowerfulOnly
All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo
PowerTimeWorldPowerfulForces
To be empathetic to everyone around you, I think, is such a powerful thing to hold.
Misty Copeland
ThinkYouPowerfulEveryoneHold
If you come in with all of the answers, you might create something that's very beautiful and powerful, but I think it will also seem sterile if you don't leave room for people to have their own reactions to it.
Mark Frost
BeautifulPeopleThinkYouPowerful
To a person of analytical ability, perceptive enough to realise that mathematical equipment was a powerful sword in economics, the world of economics was his or her oyster in 1935. The terrain was strewn with beautiful theorems begging to be picked up and arranged in unified order.
Paul Samuelson
BeautifulEconomicsWorldPowerful
If you're dealing with a powerful leader, you're inevitably going to have a dialogue with her political past. It was always my intention to interrogate Thatcher's political life.
Abi Morgan
LifeLeaderPastPoliticalPowerful
Keyword research is a task often left to SEOs and content marketers. However, it can be a powerful tool for anyone in your organization who wants to learn what your target market wants to read, learn and buy.
John Rampton
ResearchOrganizationLearnPowerful
Photography can be a powerful instrument for change, and photojournalists can tell stories that make a difference.
Brian Skerry
ChangeMake A DifferencePowerful
There's a powerful appeal in the 'I didn't know that' effect. I love it when people say, 'Gosh, I didn't know that.'
Erik Larson
LovePeoplePowerfulKnowSayGosh
You are not condemned for anything, but you are also not excused from anything. See these two ideas together at the same time, and a powerful third force for self-awakening is created.
Vernon Howard
TimeTogetherIdeasYouPowerful
Your message is stupid. Iraq is not afraid of you or anyone else when it has a right to claim. What you warned about is not on Iraq's agenda. Iraq is vital and powerful. It is not an opportunistic country. Your administration has not learned from the past.
Mohammed Aldouri
PastStupidYouPowerfulCountry
Decide exactly what you want to achieve. Do you want to help people, or do you want to be powerful?
Mario Cuomo
PeopleHelpYouPowerfulAchieve
You look at the part in '12 Years A Slave,' you finish that script - I mean, it's a powerful story. You go, 'Man, I have to play a bad character in this.' And then you go, 'Well, do I want to play a bad character and contribute to a good story?'
Paul Dano
GoodCharacterManStoryPowerful
A zeal for the defence of their country led these heroes to the scene of action, though with a few men to attack a powerful army of experienced warriors.
Daniel Boone
MenActionArmyPowerfulCountry
As separate people, we are weak, but we could be a peaceful, powerful nation.
Amity Gaige
PeoplePowerfulPeacefulWeakNation
I watched the 'Seven Samurai' a lot because I loved it growing up. I can't describe to you how powerful that was. When you're a kid, you can't watch an almost-three-hour movie, but this was a war I just never saw before, with these samurai. I could relate to it, just being poor.
Antoine Fuqua
WarGrowing UpLovedYouPowerful
I know by experience that Jesus Christ is a very powerful spirit - I know by experience that he is probably the most powerful spirit in the universe. I know by experience he is not a mere human being. He is something beyond that.
Frederica Mathewes-Green
ExperienceUniversePowerfulKnow
The world needs yoga. This stuff is powerful and intense. It has the power to harm when held tightly, studied without practice, and posed rigidly. Done right, it also has the ability to heal and cure.
Tara Stiles
PowerPracticeWorldPowerfulDone
Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to get on with the future.
Louise J. Kaplan
FutureStrugglePastWishPowerful
Many and subtle are the ideological weapons that the State has wielded through the centuries. Once excellent weapon has been tradition. The longer that the rule of a State has been able to preserve itself, the more powerful this weapon; for then, the X Dynasty or the Y State has the seeming weight of centuries of tradition behind it.
Murray Rothbard
TraditionPowerfulMoreThroughRule
Why are fanatics so terrified of girls' education? Because there's no force more powerful to transform a society. The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books.
Nicholas Kristof
EducationSocietyReadingPowerful
Almost overnight, white people have gone from being very powerful to potentially irrelevant. Their future in South Africa is not what many had envisaged, so it involves a lot of reinvention.
Damon Galgut
FuturePeoplePowerfulWhiteAfrica
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